That may be the case but we don't know how successful we would have been with.a different manager
Grass is always greener isn't it.
I still wonder if Big Sam hadn't messed up the Fake Sheikh, we might not have had some success under him. At the very least, his teams play ghung ho like everyone wants us to play.
Seems to me, if we throw the ball forward, push up, play pretty football but leak goals, fans are happy.
It'll always be difficult for an England Manager though. They get the players together for 10 days a year and expect them to play together like they've known each other for years. And get along (which I'm told happens in Germany and France)
I listen to the Crouchy podcast and it's interesting to hear his experience of the England camp, where players stuck to their club cliques and rivalries, particularly when it came to Liverpool and Man U. When you look back at the so called "Golden Generation" back in 2006, look at it;
Liverpool -
Owen
Crouch
Gerrard
Chelsea -
Lampard
Terry
Cole
Man Utd -
Neville
Ferdinand
Beckham (although by then played for RM)
Rooney
And so on. There were also 3 Arsenal players in the Squad.
If those folk can't get along (and apparently, they didn't), then we wonder why they don't perform on the Football pitch?